A color version of this would be an ideal automatic mandala printer. The second bot erasing it indicating the transience of the world.

Posted at 5:42 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by monopole

look out coke heads

Posted at 6:38 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by trashguy

good idea – messy but a nice implementation. Someone needs to tell those guys to optimize the pics on their website..their header is nearly 4mb.

Posted at 6:39 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by exup

A bigger one? No no no. You’re thinking about it all wrong. What we need is a swarm of them working together…

Posted at 6:57 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by Mio

Sorry for the huge pics. Easy to get lazy during finals trying to crank out a website. Here’s a Youtube video of it in action:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ukxT9QqYgG0

Posted at 9:05 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by Kyle Keppler

Isn’t “sports geek” an oxymoron? Or is that just me?

Posted at 9:55 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by Spi Waterwing

This might be good for the hash house harriers so member can avoid getting arrested for marking trails with flour again

Posted at 10:00 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by Philip Burkhardt

What I wanted to do when I was younger was make one with a semiautomatic paintball gun that would automatically write your message on a billboard.

Posted at 10:09 pm on Dec 20th, 2007 by localroger

I wish it was faster, but I love the angry robot noises it makes.

Posted at 12:01 am on Dec 21st, 2007 by dirk

Happy Christmas to All!

Posted at 3:43 am on Dec 21st, 2007 by Jeff

I have some friends who are creating a robot like this for painting football field for their senior project.

Posted at 10:11 am on Dec 21st, 2007 by JMoses

Get one of the ‘bots that sticks to the wall with a vacuum, and attach spray-paint cans.

I like the idea of a swarm of these bots, but they’d still have to use big “pixels” to be able to be seen from the bleachers.

Posted at 11:12 am on Dec 21st, 2007 by Skyler Orlando

This is sweet. Prob could use use it for powerdered sugar on a cake.

Http://TheSundayBong.com

Posted at 11:51 am on Dec 21st, 2007 by Bryan Ribas

#13 – They already do… this is how they inkjet print cakes

Posted at 2:50 pm on Dec 21st, 2007 by Dave Pyatt

More info at instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-PrintBot/

Posted at 10:59 pm on Dec 21st, 2007 by Kyle Keppler

1up to dirk for angry robot noises

we need more!

Posted at 8:39 am on Dec 26th, 2007 by iisjreg

Wonder why they didn’t use the encoder already provided with the printer motor/chassis combo. Could have gotten real printing resolution that way! Probably would have taken ALOT longer to print with their method & high resolution though….

Posted at 5:23 pm on Dec 26th, 2007 by Chris